Books in Dover History Coloring Book series

It’s every child’s dream come true … to color the irresistible Peter Rabbit drawings. And it’s the best way to enjoy this enduringly delightful tale. Rendered by Nancy Perkins, these large illustrations with the full story beneath tempt even the parent’s hand to color away and let the imagination run wild. Coloring while you read increases the hours of pleasure both parent and child can share recounting the adventures of the mischievous rabbit.

Explore the sand dunes of Mars; Saturn’s giant moon, Titan; the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, and other distant worlds in this thrilling coloring book, which highlights major milestones in space exploration.Forty-four carefully researched, accurately drawn illustrations re-create a variety of exciting scenes that chronicle human attempts to explore space — from the launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926 to the tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986. Other fully captioned drawings include the start of the “Space Race” with the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 (1957); the U. S. launch of a chimp into suborbital space (1961); first U. S. space walk (Ed White, June 1965); first space rendezvous (December 1965); first men on the moon (1969); Sally Ride, first U. S. woman astronaut (1983); and much more.

Dragons have figured prominently in the legends and folk tales of countless cultures. Thirty ready-to-color images of fire-breathing mythical creatures with batlike wings, scaly skin, and a barbed tail — among them a flying dragon with three heads; Quetzalcoatl, a legendary feather-covered serpent; the Leviathan, a sea monster of enormous proportions; the African amphisbaena, a beast with heads on both ends of its body; and a real dragon, the Komodo, one of the world's largest living reptiles.

A feast of opulent styles for colorists and fashion devotees, this entertaining and informative coloring book features a grand array of the sumptuous clothing style of the Victorian era. Each page offers a captivating glimpse of the gloriously embellished gowns of this bygone age, all carefully researched and accurately rendered by artist Tom Tierney.This collection of 45 illustrations, adapted from the pages of such vintage fashions publications as Modes des Paris and Godey's Lady's Book, reveals in lovingly detailed vignettes a wealth of fashions from the years 1837 to 1877. Newlyweds Queen Victoria and Prince Albert open the collection of ready-to-color line drawings in a portrait of formal evening wear. A dazzling array of elaborate, narrow-waisted, full-skirted gowns follows. The ensembles, trimmed with all manners of lace, tassels, ribbons, and bows, feature dainty accessories such as flowered and feathered bonnets, fans, kid gloves, and parasols. Outfitted for riding, swimming, walking, and visiting, the well-dressed ladies occasionally appear with gentlemen in formal suits or smartly attired children.

Windswept beaches. Swaying palm trees. Gorgeous sunsets. Colorists, painters, and other artists can escape to exotic, faraway places with this collection of 23 beckoning scenes. Breathtaking images from nature include lush hibiscus blossoms, stately birds of paradise, flamingoes and pelicans, sea turtles, and dolphins at play, plus kayakers and surfers on the Hawaiian coastline, and more. Each page is perforated for easy removal and printed on high-quality paper — one side only — with gray lines that virtually disappear when color is added. As exotic as a tropic isle, it's a great way to get away from it all!

For this handsome coloring book, award-winning illustrator Jan Sovak has provided a stunning gallery of line drawings depicting 41 snakes found worldwide. His clean, meticulous renderings, showing each snake in its natural habitat, include the anaconda, black mamba, boomslang, cottonmouth, fer-de-lance, king cobra, royal python, Sahara sand viper, boa constrictor, puff adder, Indian python, milk snake, garter snake, and many more. Detailed captions describe each snake. Includes an Index of popular and scientific names.

Feared in battle by their opponents, adept at farming and cattle raising, the Celts were a remarkable people whose height, muscularity, and fair complexion set them apart from their Roman contemporaries. Migrating westward from European lands they had occupied during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., they eventually settled in the British Isles.Artist A. G. Smith has carefully rendered over 40 finely detailed illustrations depicting the daily life and culture of ancient Celtic people. Spanning some fourteen centuries (700 B.C. to A. D. 700), the scenes depict a smelting furnace in the Hallstatt culture (Switzerland), an Iron-Age village of thatched houses, fishermen using coracles (small, round boats), a decorative page from the Book of Kells, a Scottish Broch (fortress tower), Glastonbury fishermen, farmers harvesting grain, Celtic warriors on horseback, St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland, and scenes of religious rites, Celtic exploration, costumes, weapons, armor, much more.An informative introduction and detailed, fact-filled captions complement this collection of superb drawings that will not only delight coloring book fans of all ages but will serve equally well as an excellent, abbreviated pictorial history of the ancient Celts.

Thirty famous champions of the thoroughbred racing world, including all twelve Triple Crown winners, are featured in detailed, ready-to-color illustrations in this interesting and informative coloring book. Includes the recent history-maker American Pharoah as well as legendary favorites Seabiscuit, Secretariat, and Seattle Slew, plus a few famed British and Canadian titleholders.

They're the women who helped shape America — presidential wives, daughters, and other female relatives, who served as official hostesses in the White House and often acted as advisers to the President. These forty-six ready-to-color drawings depict them in authentic settings in Washington, D.C., and around the globe. Also included are informative captions about all of these women — from Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln to Michelle Obama and Melania Trump.